Summum Bonum and Judgments
For more details on this topic, see Intrinsic value (ethics)#Life stances and intrinsic value.Judgments on the highest good have generally fallen into four categories:
- Utilitarianism, when the highest good is identified with the maximum possible psychological happiness for the maximum number of people;
- Eudaemonism or Virtue Ethics, when the highest good is identified with flourishing;
- Rational Deontologism, when the highest good is identified with virtue or duty;
- Rational Eudaemonism, or tempered Deontologism, when both virtue and happiness are combined in the highest good.
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“Judgments, value judgments concerning life, whether for or against it, can in the end never be true: their only value is as symptoms, they only come into consideration as symptoms—in themselves such judgments are stupidities. We must reach out and attempt to put our finger on this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be assessed.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)